Anyone knows how to enable the play / pause key at the back of Boxee Box?

[tedboxeeted]

I am wondering if anyone knows how to enable play / pause key at the back of the Boxee Box Remote and pass the keycodes to a swf. I have a flash based movie player and when I do boxee.setMode(boxee.KEYBOARD_MODE), the flash app does receive arrow key codes, but the play / pause key does not work.

Any help is appreciated.

[phikai]

The swf is probably receiving the codes but has absolutely no idea what to do with it...

I think there is some stuff about using the javascript to send those commands, but you have to know what you're trying to emulate

[tedboxeeted]

In my flash app, the swf does listens and processes key strokes.

What happened was if I do boxee.setMode(boxee.KEYBOARD_MODE), the swf can receive key events for arrow keys. However, that play / pause key stroke seems to be intercepted by Boxee. This is evident when boxee.setCanPause is set to false - you would see an error like "cannot pause movie" on the screen. When boxee.setCanPause is set to true, the error is gone.

When boxee.setMode is set to boxee.NORMAL_MODE, the play / pause key still does not seem to send event to swf, instead Boxee just display the media player OSD and just treats the flash app as a video and tries to pause / play it.

[shadowmelded]

You need to write a control script for youre page.

http://developer.boxee.tv/JavaScript...ontrol_Scripts

What flash video player are you using ?
If its flowplayer i have a controlscript for it.

[tedboxeeted]

I am already using a control script and am able to set the mode to KEYBOARD_MODE. I am loading a custom Flash application, not just a video player. It has built-in navigation system and video streaming capabilities already. What's missing the ability to pass play / pause keycodes from Boxee to the swf. Actually a simple test reveals that play / pause keybaord events are not passed to the html page at all. There does not seem to be any documented ways to do this in Boxee Python API either...

Anyhow, thanks for the information ~

[shadowmelded]

This is what i use to get play and pause.


boxee.onPause = function()
{
browser.execute("flowplayer().pause()");
}

boxee.onPlay = function()
{
browser.execute("flowplayer().play()");
}

But flowplayer already has a jsInterface.

[tedboxeeted]

Cool .. it works now. Thanks!